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Can you weld with a handheld torch?

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So my local home depot sells all the really big expensive welding kits but all Im doing is welding and brazing little scrap metal pieces to make a sculpture no bigger than a G.I. Joe action figure. The bonds will be made with bronze or copper braze and they are very small and it would be a great benefit to just buy the 25 dollar "handheld blow torch" the flame looks the same I just want to know if it has the power to make the small bronze braze bonds i need it to make.

Thanks for the help, Cam. 

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    0861788249 2017-02-15 09:58:22

    Actual welding, NO. However, brazing and soldering, YES. Brazing is very much like soldering wires in electronics, in that you are using a molten "filler" to bridge the gap between two solid metal parts. The metal parts do NOT melt. The molten metal brazing filler material acts very much like any glue or adhesive which does not dissolve into the base parts to stick the parts together. In welding, the base metal parts are melted along with a filler to form a molten pool of metal which mixes and then solidifies. If brazing is done correctly in things such as seawater piping in submarines, the brazed joint is stronger than the base metal of the pipe itself.

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